Sam Farr

Sam Farr (4 July 1941-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-CA 17) from 17 June 1993 to 3 January 2013 (succeeding Leon Panetta and preceding Mike Honda) and from CA 20 from 3 January 2013 to 3 January 2017 (succeeding Jim Costa and preceding Jimmy Panetta).

Biography
Sam Farr was born in San Francisco, California in 1941, and he was a Peace Corps volunteer in Colombia before working as a California State Assembly staffer. In 1975, he was elected to the Monterey County Board of Supervisors, and he served in the State Assembly from 1980 to 1993 and in the US House of Representatives from 1993 to 2017. He was affiliated with the Progressive Democrats, and he retired in 2017.